Manchester United are appointing sports psychologist Sascha Lense to Ralf Rangnick's backroom team. The 46-year-old will start work at Carrington later this week once his visa process is finalised, but he met the players for the first time on Monday.
He will join the club in a position on Rangnick's coaching staff rather than coming under the medical department. Lense had a low-key playing career that amounted to around 100 appearances in Bundesliga 2 in the 1990s and early 2000s, but he's worked under Rangnick at RB Leipzig.
His first prominent role as a sports psychologist was with Dynamo Dresden in 2014 and he was recruited by Rangnick to work at RB Leipzig from the start of the 2015/16 season.
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